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What is worse for your health: drinking coffee or energy drinks?

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Dr. Donald Alves answered

Specializes in Emergency Medicine

Energy drinks: It takes a lot more coffee to kill you, but unfortunately, there is a small but slowly growing number of deaths occuring from engergy drink ingestion--usually by those who drink several a day.

Answered 3/23/2013

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